Curse

Enchanted Warrior · Mar 08, 2007, 09:39 PM // 21:39

I just did this, and got masters. After a lot of trying and a lot of angry nights, I tried today and got it. 5 minutes 7 seconds!

I have recently levelled to Light bringer 4 (mighty lightbringer) and I believe that played a major part (using lightbringers gaze also). I also took:

As well as both healer henchies, Devona and Dervish Henchie.

Hope this helps someone.

Notes:

Melonni has Avatar of Balth. Olias use Death magic 3+1, and bloodstained insignia. All caster heroes have items with 1/2 cast and rec.

Kuldebar Valiturus · Mar 08, 2007, 10:53 PM // 22:53

Ya, that Mission has been kicking my butt, defending the altar and destroying the portals, right?

Enchanted Warrior · Mar 08, 2007, 11:09 PM // 23:09

Yes, I drop my flag in the middle of the alter, and take on the waves from all 3 sides as they approach, the minions really help with crowd control. Taste of death seems to help my mm, and heal area helps keep the minions alive. Don't forget to use ctrl-t to direct the attack. If you do this with other players, they MUST follow your orders. If they attack as they wish you are wasting your time. Above all keep moving, and fighting. Do not panic becaus the blasphemy is approaching the altar, you can direct a hero to go after him and then take out the energies.

shanaya · Mar 09, 2007, 02:45 AM // 02:45

I think this nicely highlights how a hero/hench team can so often be far superior to a PUG team.

Hockster · Mar 09, 2007, 03:01 AM // 03:01

I used the Wiki tip for 8 characters and never once not gotten masters first time through. Take Koss and Talkora, flag them to the center altar. They can easily hold it while the other 6 take the other altars. Five minutes is a pretty typical time for it.

The above assumes the player has a vague clue on setting up hero skillbars. If you can't do that, well, stick to PUG riding.

Edit: OP, Rebirth in an insanely closed up mission? Oy, no wonder it took you so long.

Enchanted Warrior · Mar 09, 2007, 03:26 AM // 03:26

LOL All I know is I got masters, done , finished.. next..

Got POT, 2 from POC, 4 from POE

ShadowbaneX · Mar 09, 2007, 05:36 AM // 05:36

I got it as well with H/H. I was using a Double Echo Gaze mesmer with a few fun domination spells like empathy, backfire and cry of frustration, along with res.

Heroes were Koss, Tahlkora and Olias. Hench were Herta, Khim, Mhenlo and Devona. I flagged the Heroes in the center and took the hench with me for portal duty. Took me a while because Tahlkora was set for Prot and I didn't want to bother rerune her to Heal. The mission probably would have gone alot better if I had Jagged Bones for Olias...although I think the first thing I did after getting this was taking my necro out and capping JB...

VorianVader · Mar 09, 2007, 10:18 AM // 10:18

Yep same here. Got masters using H/H team on 2 characters i.e. Ranger and Ritualist.

Ritualist was easier to get it with. Heroes were MM, Nuker and Prot monk with warrior, ele, healer and illusion henchies. Fought off the initial waves at the center then cleared out portals one by one. Its actually easier to ignore the blasphemy until the altar gets up to 75% at which time you rush back and retake it.

Jaceb · Mar 09, 2007, 02:06 PM // 14:06

For me this mission was such a mess mostly because tahlkora (the monk hero) was low level, walking aggro-magnet with "Please gank me!" flag and they sure did that.. Needless to day, she died so many times. Tahlkora leveled maybe 8 times before i beat it

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Enchanted Warrior · Mar 09, 2007, 04:38 PM // 16:38

Lightbringer gaze is very handy when going after the Blasphemy and the subsequent energies. I was hitting the Blasphemy for almost total health, sometimes it was a quick kill. Granted he's easy but this gave me time as it is a ranged attack. I would nail him and let the minions have the energies. I really think LB4 was the klincher. I read it covers heroes also so it no doubt helped keep them alive also. I took a guildy thru last night and got 5.28. He was happy

Bobby Sox · Mar 09, 2007, 06:33 PM // 18:33

Your posted builds loosely resemble the strategy I used with my paragon to get the master's reward on this mission with heroes/henchmen: melee overload. I found this to work much better than the dual nuking ele strategy posted on the wiki.

Enchanted Warrior · Mar 09, 2007, 06:40 PM // 18:40

My strategies tend to be as a guildy put it.."If he fails he comes back with a bigger hammer and keeps coming back"

I miss "Curse of the Azure bonds (old rpg game)" and "Nuclear blast" lol